Andreas wrote:
Hi,
I'm not shooting for an enterprise grade fileserver, mind you. I'd like a save and reasonably fast box for a couple of windows clients. I know SUSE for years and therefore I grabbed a 11.1 DVD and sat up a PC with an SEMPRON 3000, 2GB RAM, a 160 + 300 GB Samsung SATAs that should deliver enough to saturate the 100 MBit-LAN at any time.
<snip> Andreas, For a 'file server', it doesn't take much hardware to make a plenty good file server. I have an old Athlon tbird 800 with 1G of ram serving a dozen boxes at the office as a file server and it does just fine. The key is a reasonably fast drive in the box. This old box doesnt' even support SATA, so it's just running an old IBM Deskstar 7200 rpm drive and it mows the grass just fine. It has been serving files via samba since the samba 1.x days. I have another file server based on an Athlon 2.8 GHz chip with 2 SATA 300 drives in raid1 using dmraid as well. I have yet another file server based on a Phenom 9850 with another 4 SATA 300 drives in raid1 (2 sets). To tell you the truth, I don't really notice a performance difference between any of them for a file server. Not for a webserver, speed makes a LOT of difference... And sure, it doesn't matter what size box you have, pulling a large transfer or backup over a 100TX network will saturate/but not kill any subnet. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org